LibraryScenariosWhen Success Doesn't Change Your Class Anxiety
Scenario

When Success Doesn't Change Your Class Anxiety

I grew up poor and now I make six figures but I still shop at thrift stores and feel guilty ordering appetizers at restaurants, and my new colleagues think I'm weird.

Juana
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic mobility can leave someone suspended between worlds, belonging fully to neither their past nor present circumstances.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class identity and class consciousness?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.